Example sentences of "[verb] happened a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about .
2 It seems to have happened a little bit quicker than planned , ’ he joked .
3 As though all this had happened a long time ago .
4 Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago .
5 ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth .
6 They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what .
7 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people .
8 Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that .
9 Suddenly recalling an incident that had happened a few months previously , she gave a small , twisted smile .
10 If the explosions had happened a few weeks later , the Hoffmans would have been living somewhere else .
11 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
12 If this had happened a few years earlier — ’
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